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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Memphis's East ov Eden blends technical death metal's surgical precision with deathcore's brutalist breakdown tendencies, a volatile combination the band has been refining since forming in 2023.
Death metal band from Essen in Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland, delivering visceral, provocatively titled extremity since 2018. Their confrontational name sets the tone for an uncompromising approach to the genre.
Death metal act from Glauchau in Saxony, Germany, channeling raw, unfiltered aggression with a characteristically provocative name since 2014. Their no-holds-barred approach reflects the German underground's most confrontational tendencies.
Out of Ojai, California since 2019, this band lives at the collision point of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence — short songs, maximum hostility, zero tolerance for restraint.
A Ventura, California death-grind act with over a decade behind them, Eat the Living has consistently delivered the kind of gore-soaked, blast-heavy brutality their name promises.
Chicago's Eat Their Own fuses black and death metal into something antagonistic and unapologetic, a product of a city with a long tradition of underground extremity that dates back to their 2015 formation.
Lucas, Texas grindcore since 2014 — Eaten keeps it short, fast, and punishing, with the kind of no-frills approach that made grind powerful in the first place.
Baltimore's Eaten Alive has been at it since 2016, playing straight-ahead death metal in a city that takes its extreme music seriously — no frills, just bone-deep heaviness.
Jacksonville, North Carolina's Eater of Worlds landed in the death/thrash crossroads when they formed in 2020, channeling military-town aggression into riff-heavy, skull-caving metal.
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